He furthermore accepted contracts by the Klingons to sell them and later have another of Ganz's business associates recover from Vanguard a mysterious artifact. While covertly observing the transaction between Ganz's other associate and the Klingons he noticed another ship observing as well. After the transaction the other ship followed the Klingons to their next destination, so he did as well. Zett quickly became aware of Quinn's presence on that world as well and when it was attacked by the Shedai Wanderer to repossess the artifact (which turned out to have another Shedai trapped inside) he was killed by Quinn amidst the ongoing destruction. (VANnovel: Precipice)